BEFORE YOU READ ON, KNOW THAT I IN NO WAY BLAME KYOTI/LUCKY 13 LACQUER FOR THIS. IT IS SURELY MY FAULT, SINCE I AM AN IDIOT AND EVERYTHING. I JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED.

Read that? Get it? Got it? Good. Know that it's not Kyoti's fault? And I don't blame her for it? Good. Carry on.

Ok, so last night, I was looking through my box of nail polish, admiring my pretties, while saying, "My preeeeeecious...". Y'know. Normal night. Anyways, I pick up my only two sacred indies, WWTM and Quantum Locked, which I store upside down, as with all my chunkier glitters. (Mistake number one? You tell me! I don't know!) So I see it from the bottom and it looks like this and I'm still in my happy world thinking glittery thoughts. And then I pick it up and...this. At this point, I'm like, "Ohshitohshitohshit." And then, with shaky hands, I open the top.

I don't even know where the glass neck is. A (wo)manly tear or two may or may not have been shed. I don't even...It's not like it broke from me dropping it or anything ~ never dropped the box, never even moved it anywhere from my windowsill. I DON'T GET IT! Luckily, my Quantum Locked was still in tact -cuddles Quantum Locked-. BUT STILL.

Has anything like this ever happened to you? Do you even know what could've happened? (notes: lid was tightly screwed on, bottles were stored upside down, uh...anything else?)

Nnnnnooooooo that's terrible!!!!! I'm so sorry! I've never had this happen but I will say that my bottle of OPI Holy Pink Pagoda ALWAYS glues itself shut, no matter how much I clean off the glass neck/threads/brush with acetone between uses. And I always fear that opening it will snap the bottle. It was my very first OPI and I'm pretty sure I would cry real tears if it broke, even if I'm not a huge fan of hot pink anymore :(

Try putting petroleum jelly on the threads of the neck. I do that and it helps with poorly fitting lids. Or else decant most of it into another bottle to use and keep the original bottle for display/sentimental status.

I never store my polishes upside down, as it can expose the end of the brush, causing it to dry out, and make it coat the threads and gunk up the neck of the polish. That could have been what happened, too much weight/pressure :(

It's more a space issue than anything. I don't really have anywhere I could put a cabinet or rack. Right now they're all in an old caboodle, with the ones I can't stand up upside down. I've been wanting to get something new to store them in, but I have no idea what would be good for our small space.

If your space is really badly limited, you might try an over-the-door organizer (the kind with the multiple pockets). It would hold a good amount of polish and not be terribly in the way. I would just use it on a door that doesn't get heavy use to keep them from being jostled around too much. Upright storage really is the best for polish.